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§280j–2 Public reporting of performance information

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES › Part Part S— - Health Care Quality Programs › Subpart subpart i— - national strategy for quality improvement in health care › § 280j–2

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must put summarized quality and performance data online using standard websites. The information must be made for different users (like hospitals, doctors, patients, researchers, and policymakers). When possible, the data should cover specific clinical conditions and be broken down by provider so it fits different patient needs. The Secretary must work with the entity that holds the contract under section 1890(a) of the Social Security Act and others. That contracted entity must gather multi-stakeholder groups to review site design and send their views to the Secretary. The Secretary should coordinate these websites with other public quality reports, and funds were authorized for 2010 through 2014.

Title 42, §280j–2

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(a)The Secretary shall make available to the public, through standardized Internet websites, performance information summarizing data on quality measures. Such information shall be tailored to respond to the differing needs of hospitals and other institutional health care providers, physicians and other clinicians, patients, consumers, researchers, policymakers, States, and other stakeholders, as the Secretary may specify.

(b)The performance information made publicly available on an Internet website, as described in subsection (a), shall include information regarding clinical conditions to the extent such information is available, and the information shall, where appropriate, be provider-specific and sufficiently disaggregated and specific to meet the needs of patients with different clinical conditions.

(c)(1)In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall consult with the entity with a contract under section 1890(a) of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 1395aaa(a)], and other entities, as appropriate, to determine the type of information that is useful to stakeholders and the format that best facilitates use of the reports and of performance reporting Internet websites.

(2)The entity with a contract under section 1890(a) of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 1395aaa(a)] shall convene multi-stakeholder groups, as described in such section, to review the design and format of each Internet website made available under subsection (a) and shall transmit to the Secretary the views of such multi-stakeholder groups with respect to each such design and format.

(d)Where appropriate, the Secretary shall coordinate the manner in which data are presented through Internet websites described in subsection (a) and for public reporting of other quality measures by the Secretary, including such quality measures under title XVIII of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.].

(e)To carry out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 2010 through 2014.

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The Social Security Act, referred to in subsec. (d), is act Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, 49 Stat. 620. Title XVIII of the Act is classified generally to subchapter XVIII (§ 1395 et seq.) of chapter 7 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 1305 of this title and Tables.